Autore	Faflak Joel
Pubbl/distr/stampa	University of Toronto Press, 2018
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource
Disciplina	809/.933609034
Soggetto topico	Evolution (Biology) in literature Evolution (Biology) - Philosophy LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century
Soggetto genere / forma	History
Soggetto non controllato	Literature Charles Darwin Evolution Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling Immanuel Kant Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Thomas Robert Malthus
ISBN	1-4426-9960-4 1-4875-1816-1 1-4426-9959-0
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Introduction. Marking time : romanticism and evolution / Joel Faflak -- Part one: Romanticism's Darwin. 1. Plants, analogy, and perfection : loose and strict analogies / Gillian Beer ; 2. Darwin and the mobility of species / Alan Bewell ; 3. Darwin's ideas [ideas in strikethrough text] / Matthew Rowlinson -- Part two: Romantic temporalities. 4. Deep time in the South Pacific : scientific voyaging and the ancient/primitive analogy / Noah Heringman ; 5. Malthus our contemporary? : toward a political economy of sex / Maureen N. McLane -- Part three: Goethe and the contingencies of life. 6. Structure and advancement in Goethe's morphology / Gábor Áron Zemplen ; 7. Vertiginous life : Goethe, bones, and Italy / Andrew Piper ; 8. Taking chances / Theresa M. Kelley -- Part four: Evolutionary idealisms. 9. Did Goethe and Schelling endorse species evolution? / Robert J. Richards ; 10. The vitality of idealism : life and evolution in Schelling's and Hegel's systems / Tilottama Rajan ; 11. Degeneration : inversions of teleology / Joan Steigerwald.
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Autore	Carroll Joseph <1949->
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2011
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (371 p.)
Disciplina	809/.9336
Soggetto topico	Literature and science Literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc Evolution (Biology) in literature Human behavior - Philosophy Evolutionary psychology
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-4384-3524-X 1-4416-8886-2
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Part one: Adaptationist literary theory -- Part Two: Interpretive practice. Aestheticism, homoeroticism, and Christian guilt in The picture of Dorian Gray; the cuckoo's history: human nature in Wuthering Heights; intentional meaning in Hamlet -- Part three: Empirical literary study: an experiment in web-based research. Agonistic structure in Victorian novels: doing the math; quantifying agonistic structure in The mayor of Casterbridge -- Part four: Evolutionary intellectual history. The power of Darwin's vision; the science wars in a long view; a Darwinian revolution in the humanities.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910461522403321

Autore	Carroll Joseph <1949->
Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2011
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (371 p.)
Disciplina	809/.9336
Soggetto topico	Literature and science Literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc Evolution (Biology) in literature Human behavior - Philosophy Evolutionary psychology
ISBN	1-4384-3524-X 1-4416-8886-2
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Part one: Adaptationist literary theory -- Part Two: Interpretive practice. Aestheticism, homoeroticism, and Christian guilt in The picture of Dorian Gray; the cuckoo's history: human nature in Wuthering Heights; intentional meaning in Hamlet -- Part three: Empirical literary study: an experiment in web-based research. Agonistic structure in Victorian novels: doing the math; quantifying agonistic structure in The mayor of Casterbridge -- Part four: Evolutionary intellectual history. The power of Darwin's vision; the science wars in a long view; a Darwinian revolution in the humanities.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910827183903321

Autore	Rohman Carrie
Pubbl/distr/stampa	New York, : Columbia University Press, c2009
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (209 p.)
Disciplina	820.9/362
Soggetto topico	Animals in literature Animals - Symbolic aspects English literature - 19th century - History and criticism English literature - 20th century - History and criticism Ethics in literature Evolution (Biology) in literature Human-animal relationships in literature Modernism (Literature) - Great Britain
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	0-231-51856-0
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The Animal Among Others -- 2. Imperialism and Disavowal -- 3. Facing the Animal -- 4. Recuperating the Animal -- 5. Revising the Human -- Conclusion. Animal Studies, Ethics, and the Humanities -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910462127103321

Autore	Sartori Andrea
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2022]
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (278 pages)
Disciplina	813.54
Collana	Italian and Italian American studies
Soggetto topico	Evolution (Biology) in literature Italian fiction Italian fiction - 19th century - History and criticism
ISBN	9783031188503 9783031188497
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Praise for The Struggle for Life and the Modern Italian Novel, 1859-1925 -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction: The Anxiety of Modernization -- Chapter 2: Darwin's Traces -- 1 Struggle for Life: The Origin of a Metaphor -- 2 Derrida and Darwin -- 3 Darwin Contended: A Literary Perspective -- 4 In Italy: Fogazzaro, D'Annunzio, Verga, Pascoli -- Chapter 3: Svevo: (A) Life and Writing -- 1 December, 1902 -- 2 Adaptive Demands -- 3 A Solitary Performance -- 4 The Struggle for Life and Woman -- 5 An Emotional Void -- 6 An Indelible Trace: Images of Deprivation -- 7 Delirium and Writing -- Chapter 4: De Roberto: Power and Transformism -- 1 Zola: The Features of a Dream -- 2 De Roberto: Writing about Negativity -- 3 De Roberto: The Viceroys -- 3.1 A Fading Inheritance -- 3.2 Suggestion: From Family to Politics -- 3.3 Final Curtain: The Unpredictable -- Chapter 5: Pirandello: Name and Performance -- 1 Copernicus and Darwin -- 2 The Late Mattia Pascal: Is There Any Logic? -- 3 One, No One and One Hundred Thousand: Getting Under the Skin -- 4 Six Characters in Search of an Author: A Tale of Shame -- Chapter 6: Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Author Index -- Subject Index.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910768466603321